Disappointed to hear the favourable noises about the single market emanating from Theresa. Those who feel that the NHS was promised £350m a week in a post-Brexit Britain will certainly feel that we were promised an exit from the single market, not just the EU.

Neither do I, but I do recall seeing it affirmed unambiguously by prominent campaigners on both sides of the argument. David Cameron, Angela Leadsom, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, George Osborne. All of them stated unambiguously that we would leave the single market following a Brexit vote, with the exception of Angela Leadsom who to be fair only described this as "almost certain".

Well the UK deal at least is not likely to be scuppered by some remote region in continental Europe, whose officials are accountable to exactly no-one in the UK, exercising a veto. A rather elegant demonstration of one reason we're better off out.

Quote from: Slim on October 25, 2016, 00:10:05 amWell the UK deal at least is not likely to be scuppered by some remote region in continental Europe, whose officials are accountable to exactly no-one in the UK, exercising a veto. A rather elegant demonstration of one reason we're better off out.

Yes, what was it that was said by the Remain campaign about the superior negotiating power of a huge trading bloc such as the EU - one of their team stuck the ball in their own net on this occasion. "Allez, les Walloons!"

I think the Wallonia barrier demonstrates how individual EU members have control over trade deals and that they are still free to make many decisions themselves. Wasn't that one of the arguments for leaving the EU, that we had lost our sovereignty?